Category: Property News

The rental market continues to race huge structural problems including low supply, high demand and rising rents, the latest housing market survey by RICS has revealed. Its surveyors reported that…

Junior Housing Minister Felicity Buchan (main picture) has been tasked with overseeing the private rented sector, taking over from Lee Rowley in the latest instalment of ministerial musical chairs. Rowley…

The mention of Japanses knoweed has the effect of putting the fear of God in property owners, but the bamboo plant, which is lesser known, can be even more devastating.…

The number of students who passed referencing dropped from 50% to 40% this autumn and is likely to fall even further, due partly to the growing cost-of-living crisis, according to…

The Making Tax Digital initiative (MTD) is a HMRC scheme that aims to modernise income tax accounting and reporting, making the process fully digital. The idea is to improve HMRC’s…

Successful landlord and property developer Kathy Miller has urged the government to rethink its plans to abolish Section 21 or face a big rise in court cases and spiralling bills…

For the millions of UK landlords who operate just a handful of rental properties, the take-up of tech to manage their bricks and mortar, financials, tenants and compliance has been…

Campaign group the London Renters Union has stepped up its attempt to freeze rents in the capital, while blaming “out of control” landlords for recent rises. A public meeting on…

Landlords have been under a lot of pressure recently, with interest rates going up, house prices dropping, and changes in government, anxiety levels have been at an all-time high. But…

October saw a sharp slowdown in annual house price growth to 7.2% from 9.5% in September, reports Nationwide, as the average house price fell 0.9% to £268,282. This was the…